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Friday, May 25, 2012

The University Poem

‘So then you’re Russian? It’s the first timeI have met a Russian …’And the lively, delicately bulgingeyes examine me. ‘You take your teawith lemon, I already know.I also know that you have iconswhere you live, and samovars.’A pretty girl. A British glowspreads across her tender skin.She laughs, she speaks at a quick clip:‘Frankly, our town is dullish,though the river’s charming!Do you row?’ Big girl,with sloping shoulders, hands that are large,bereft of rings.

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Thus, at the vicar’s, over tea,brand-new acquaintances, we chat,and I endeavour to be droll.In troubling, dulcet worry lostat the legs that she has crossedand at her vivid lips I peer,then, once again, I quickly shiftmy cheeky gaze. She, as expected,has come with aunt, although the latteris busy with her left-wing patter – ,and, contradicting her, the vicar,a timid man (large Adam’s apple),with a brown-eyed, canine squint,chokes upon a nervous cough.